The first trailer of Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin is out. The satire, starring Steve Buscemi (as Nikita Khrushchev), Michael Palin (as Vyacheslav Molotov), and Jason Isaacs (as Georgy Zhukov), will hit UK theaters in October. However, it will be premiered in September at the Toronto Film Festival.

The movie is about iconic Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s death in 1953 has a number of conspiracy theories attached to it. According to the official synopsis of the film, it is a dark comedy about what “might have happened.” It is also about the power struggle that followed Stalin’s death, Yahoo UKreported.

The Death of Stalin is based on a French book about what “might have happened” after the death of the renowned Soviet leader. The comic book describes the “the insanity, the perversity and the inhumanity of totalitarianism” in the couple of days after Stalin’s death.

Iannucci is known for his earlier films like The Thick Of It and In The Loop. Both the films were political satires. He created the BBC comedies The Day Today and I’m Alan Partridge. The British director is also behind the highly popular HBO show, Veep, also a political comedy.

After Stalin died of stroke, some of his team of ministers wanted positive changes in the country, while others had “sinister motives.” The YouTube description of the trailer says that each of them had one thing in common: they desperately tried to remain alive.

“Watch Comrades,” the official first trailer of Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin says at its launch.

The Death of Stalin is starting to trend so I’m writing this to try and help that along. I’m sorry if you did not know he was dead.